Builder Spotlight: Xtrata, by @jimdotbtc.
A neon arcade hall where every cabinet is a game living on Stacks, and every high score is signed onto an on-chain leaderboard.
We played it. Here's what Jim built. 🧵
This never ends WELL.
5 of history's biggest stock market bubbles all ended in a crash or a recession.
Today, the 41 stocks JPMorgan classifies as AI-related make up 49% of the S&P 500.
That's higher than every one of those bubbles except the 1880s railroads.
Here's how each of them ended:
- Railroads, 63% in 1881: the US fell into the Depression of 1882 to 1885
- Roaring Twenties, 36% in 1929: the Dow fell 89% by 1932 and took 25 years to recover
- Nifty Fifty, 40% in 1972: the S&P 500 fell 48% in 1973 and 1974
- Japan, 44% in 1988: the Nikkei peaked a year later, lost over 80% and took 34 years to recover
- Dot-com, 41% in 2000: the Nasdaq fell 78% and took 15 years to recover
That's 15, 25 and 34 years for those indexes to reclaim their peaks.
Meanwhile, Bianco Research says AI would already be 51% of the S&P 500 if SpaceX were included.
"The last time a single theme was >50% of the $SPX was the railroads in the 19th century," the firm adds.
If you think oil prices will come crashing down once the Iran war ends - think again.
The December 2028 futures price on Brent just broke an all time high.
Over 2 Billion barrels of oil were taken out of the market and emergency stocks have been drained.
Eventually, those stocks will need to be refilled and governments will bid for barrels.
When we one day look back on this period of time, we will fully realise the extent of the oil market manipulation.
Near daily headlines that ping-pong between peace and war.
All preceded by questionable insider trades.
The CFTC isn't going to investigate, but one day the truth will come out.
And it will shock everyone.
🇪🇺 THE EU WILL BAN CASH PAYMENTS OVER €10,000 FROM JULY 2027
The cap comes from the EU's new anti-money-laundering rulebook and applies in all 27 member states.
Countries can set even lower limits if they like.
Sellers will also have to check ID on cash payments of €3,000 or more.
Cash is getting harder to use without showing ID.
Funny, I wanted to post this yesterday, but I didn't since it will be part of yet another article I'm working on and I didn't want to spoil it
However, since things are moving so fast and the part about Europe has already come to pass, I have decided to post it anyway so I'll have the receipts 😜
So here goes 4 crazy predictions
Next predictions for the coming days, years, and decades...?
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1️⃣ EU will be given an 'ultimatum' to get its shit together. However If they can't, I will stick with my old predicition from years ago that it will become the new Middle East
✅️ (ultimatum happened today)
2️⃣ Latin America will become the New Europe (i.e. prosperous and peaceful and with high culture)
✅️ (that has already begun)
3️⃣ North & South Korea will be reunited and become the real powerhouse of the east
❔️ (there's early signs)
And finally, the really big one...
4️⃣ A New Achaemenid Empire will arise in Iran that will help stabilize the Middle East once and for all and make it bloom again
❔️ (perhaps in combination with a New Kurdistan. So the Kurds in Turkey can move there)
Long shots I know, but I believe not impossible. We are entering the Age (of landlocked) Empires
The debate isn't about the dollar's decline. It's about its transformation
Great powers don't choose to fall; they choose to evolve
The "Imperial Pivot" is underway: a strategic shift from the brittle petrodollar system to a more resilient, trust-minimized Bitcoin-energy flywheel
This isn't the end of American primacy. It's the next version of it
Of course theory needs proof. And the proof is physical...
The 'Diesel Wall' that's about to hit shows this system operating in real-time:
State-level energy actors will be using crypto "shadow rails" for settlement outside of legacy friction
This is the sound of the new world being built, that is, not in boardrooms, but on the rails of digital settlement. It's happening right now
European elite, the City of London, the globalists who run the old legacy system based on debt and forever wars, are being obsoleted and they know it. Zelensky knows it. It's over
Hence the panic in their last ditch effort to hold on to power...
The finacial foxes have been out outmanoeuvred by the Empire building lions: Xi, Trump, Putin
https://t.co/XqAGL9YyvL…
The reframe of #BTC from asset to statecraft is the key to navigating the Thucydides Trap. #Bitcoin is becoming the neutral middleware for geopolitical energy settlement
The implications are staggering. Those who see it will be prepared
As I wrote on May 24th, 2026, energy will be priced in Bitcoin hence it being unfazed by rising energy prices
(Full thesis by @BitcoinliveDB: "Bitcoin as Energy Rail") #Oil #Energy #Diesel #Geopolitics #Putin #Trump #Xi
Juice now has an auto-compounding STX pool 🧃
Put your STX in a Juice safe. It earns Bitcoin, and an on-chain swap vault turns that Bitcoin into more STX and adds it back to your stack every week. Nobody holds your funds, it all runs in the contract 🌱
No fees for the first 2.1M STX, and you keep that for as long as you stay in 🔒
In Nov 2021 I launched my first NFT collection on Stacks: bitgear
3,800 pieces of loot-style gear, each one a tiny 12×12 pixel image.
Back then few people knew how to write Clarity contracts properly. Including me.